Chapter 1 Dreamland

In a room at William Manor, the silver-haired girl lay struggling on the bed with her eyes tightly closed, it was obvious that she was caught in a nightmare..

In her dream, a man stands on the sea and wails, "Artemis, no matter how many times I reincarnate, I cannot control myself from loving you, but this arrow mark on my heart will remind me that you do not love me, you will only betray me."

The man spits a mouthful of blood and disappears in the wail as a dot of green light on the surface of the sea.

"No--"

Artemis shouted suddenly, woke up from the dream, as if seeing something terrible. Her lavender eyes were filled with fear and grief, her heart was so painful that her limbs curled, as if someone had plucked a piece of flesh from her heart alive, so painful that she couldn't breathe.

But she had always lived at William Manor, her grandfather had never allowed her to go out, she had never known such a man, so why would he call her name?

And why did his call make her heart ache so much?

As the world's top-ranked detective, she could solve the eternal conundrum, but couldn't figure out this dream.

As the world's leading forensic scientist, she could know any answer she wanted from a dead person, but couldn't know who this man was.

The sound in the room drew a question from Lars, the bodyguard, at the door, "Master, are you all right?"

She tricked Lars away from the door and stepped out of the room on the furry carpet on the floor and into the garden looking out to the sea in the distance.

Under the shadow of night, her bare feet were a little cold, but she didn't care, and her mind was still recalling the dream she had just had.

From her childhood, Artemis always kept dreaming of a man wailing on the beach with an arrow in his back, thick blood staining the water at his feet. She couldn't see what he looked like, but a sinking grief emanating from him pressed her out of breath like a boulder. The feeling of heartbreak and hatred was like a huge wave and tsunami, leaving her nowhere to hide.

She looked up at the moon in the sky, which was so bright, with light sprinkled on earth. But she always felt that it was not so, something was forgotten by her, the moon ... was very sad.

This strange thought haunted her, and she shook her head to put the thought behind her, but could not shake off the residual pain in her heart.

Under the moonlight, the calm sea suddenly issued a loud sound, an island slowly appeared. A Yuet ROM tree on the island rose into the sky, shining like a diamond in the night.

Artemis looked at the Tsukiwara tree with fascination, a sudden searing stream of air came from her chest, and a familiar feeling surged through her body, as if they had known each other for tens of thousands of years.

An attraction made her walk unconsciously towards the beach. When she was about to cross out of the William Manor, Lars' voice rang out.

"Master, have you forgotten the words of Count William? You cannot go out of the manor."

Artemis snapped back to her senses and realized that something was wrong. She took another look across the island with reluctance in her eyes, but she couldn't disobey her grandfather's words.

Grandfather, a famous high priest, predicted before he left the house that Artemis had recently had a great calamity, and that if she stepped outside the manor, she would cause a terrible disaster.

Grandfather went out looking for a panacea for her, and she couldn't give him any more trouble.

Although Artemis' footsteps stopped, her heart still surged because of the appearance of that Yuet ROM tree, and even her face turned a little red.